Rats Addicted To Gambling

Rats Addicted To Gambling
Rats Compulsively Gamble for Same Reason Humans Do: Lack of Serotonin Rats in laboratory tests learned to gamble based on a system of punishments and rewards, strategizing like human gamblers. And when researchers tweaked the animals’ brain chemistry to mimic that of humans with a gambling addiction,...
January 22nd, 2010 | Health & Happiness | Read More

US opens its first marijuana cafe

US opens its first marijuana cafe
America’s first marijuana cafe has opened – as a private club – posing an early test of the Obama administration’s move to relax policing of medical use of the drug. The Cannabis Cafe in Portland, Oregon, is the first to give certified medical marijuana users a place to obtain the drug...
January 20th, 2010 | Health & Happiness | Read More

Can Human Nature Be Changed?

Can Human Nature Be Changed?
An introduction to the discoveries of Bart Huges relating to the economics of the blood supply in the brain, consciousness, LSD, and trepanation – something new… Life is a struggle for survival. For plant or animal of any kind that is an unescapable fact. It is true for each individual...
December 30th, 2009 | Health & Happiness | Read More

Happiness is a Skill to be Cultivated

Happiness is a Skill to be Cultivated
Renowned Buddhist monk, Matthieu Ricard, gives a lesson in how to learn and cultivate the skill of being happy. Matthieu Ricard quit his career as a cellular geneticist nearly 40 years ago to study Buddhism. He is the French translator for the Dalai Lama. Matthieu has authored seven books, including...
November 5th, 2009 | Health & Happiness | Read More

Molecules of Emotion

Molecules of Emotion
“A far-flung network of information carried by . . . [provides] the molecular underpinnings of what we experience as feelings, sensations, thoughts, drives, perhaps even spirit or soul. ” By Candace Pert. From Shift Magazine: –CANDACE PERT Candace Pert’s research suggests that...
October 4th, 2009 | Health & Happiness | Read More

From INTELLIGENT LIFE magazine

From INTELLIGENT LIFE magazine
Russell Southwood is queuing outside his local cinema in south London, listening to his iPod. Hip-hop and jazz, as usual. What is less usual is what he is queuing up for: not a film but a live transmission of this season’s opening night from the Royal Opera House. “I like hip-hop and opera,” he...
August 7th, 2009 | Health & Happiness | Read More
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